Prepare risk assessment form for constuction site

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## Part 2 ## Hazard Assessment, Elimination and Control ## Hazard assessment - 7 (1) An employer must assess a work site and identify existing and potential hazards before work begins at the work site or prior to the construction of a new work site. - 7 (2) An employer must prepare a report of the results of a hazard assessment and the methods used to control or eliminate the hazards identified. - 7 (3) An employer must ensure that the date on which the hazard assessment is prepared or revised is recorded on it. - 7 (4) An employer must ensure that the hazard assessment is repeated - (a) at reasonably practicable intervals to prevent the development of unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, - (b) when a new work process is introduced, - (c) when a work process or operation changes, or - (d) before the construction of significant additions or alterations to a work site. - 7 (5) Repealed. ## Worker participation - 8 (1) An employer must involve affected workers in the hazard assessment and in the control or elimination of the hazards identified. - 8 (2) Repealed. ## Hazard elimination and control - 9 (1) If an existing or potential hazard to workers is identified during a hazard assessment, an employer must take measures in accordance with this section to - (a) eliminate the hazard, or - (b) if elimination is not reasonably practicable, control the hazard. - 9 (2) If reasonably practicable, an employer must eliminate or control a hazard through the use of engineering controls. - 9 (3) If a hazard cannot be eliminated or controlled under subsection (2), the employer must use administrative controls that control the hazard to a level as low as reasonably achievable. - 9 (4) If the hazard cannot be eliminated or controlled under subsection (2) or (3), the employer must ensure that the appropriate personal protective equipment is used by workers affected by the hazard. - 9 (5) If the hazard cannot be eliminated or controlled under subsection (2), (3) or (4), the …

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## 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA) - (A) Materials of construction; - (B) Piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID's); - (C) Electrical classification; - (D) Relief system design and design basis; - (E) Ventilation system design; - (F) Design codes and standards employed; - (G) Material and energy balances for processes built after May 26, 1992; and, - (H) Safety systems (e.g. interlocks, detection or suppression systems). - (ii) The employer shall document that equipment complies with recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices. - (iii) For existing equipment designed and constructed in accordance with codes, standards, or practices that are no longer in general use, the employer shall determine and document that the equipment is designed, maintained, inspected, tested, and operating in a safe manner. - (e) Process hazard analysis. (1) The employer shall perform an initial process hazard analysis (hazard evaluation) on processes covered by this standard. The process hazard analysis shall be appropriate to the complexity of the process and shall identify, evaluate, and control the hazards involved in the process. Employers shall determine and document the priority order for conducting process hazard analyses based on a rationale which includes such considerations as extent of the process hazards, number of potentially affected employees, age of the process, and operating history of the process. The process hazard analysis shall be conducted as soon as possible, but not later than the following schedule: - (i) No less than 25 percent of the initial process hazards analyses shall be completed by May 26, 1994; - (ii) No less than 50 percent of the initial process hazards analyses shall be completed by May 26, 1995; - (iii) No less than 75 percent of the initial process hazards analyses shall be completed by May 26, 1996; - (iv) All initial process hazards analyses shall be completed by May 26, 1997. - (v) Process hazards analyses completed after May 26, 1987 w…

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- (c) Access and egress -(1) Structural ramps. (i) Structural ramps that are used solely by employees as a means of access or egress from excavations shall be designed by a competent person. Structural ramps used for access or egress of equipment shall be designed by a competent person qualified in structural design, and shall be constructed in accordance with the design. - (ii) Ramps and runways constructed of two or more structural members shall have the structural members connected together to prevent displacement. - (iii) Structural members used for ramps and runways shall be of uniform thickness. - (iv) Cleats or other appropriate means used to connect runway structural members shall be attached to the bottom of the runway or shall be attached in a manner to prevent tripping. - (v) Structural ramps used in lieu of steps shall be provided with cleats or other surface treatments on the top surface to prevent slipping. - (2) Means of egress from trench excavations. A stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress shall be located in trench excavations that are 4 feet (1.22 m) or more in depth so as to require no more than 25 feet (7.62 m) of lateral travel for employees. - (d) Exposure to vehicular traffic. Employees exposed to public vehicular traffic shall be provided with, and shall wear, warning vests or other suitable garments marked with or made of reflectorized or high-visibility material. - (e) Exposure to falling loads. No employee shall be permitted underneath loads handled by lifting or digging equipment. Employees shall be required to stand away from any vehicle being loaded or unloaded to avoid being struck by any spillage or falling materials. Operators may remain in the cabs of vehicles being loaded or unloaded when the vehicles are equipped, in accordance with §1926.601(b)(6), to provide adequate protection for the operator during loading and unloading operations. - (f) Warning system for mobile equipment. When mobile equipment is operated ad…

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- 3. An exposing employer must exercise reasonable care to discover a hazard by demonstrating is has regularly and diligently inspected the worksite. - 4. If the exposing employer has the authority to correct or remove the hazard, it must correct or remove the hazard with reasonable diligence. If the exposing employer lacks such authority, it may still be cited if it fails to do each of the following: - a. Make a good effort to ask the creating and/or controlling employer to correct the hazard; - b. Inform its employees of the hazard; and - c. Take reasonable alternative measures, consistent with its authority on the worksite, to protect its employees. - 5. EXAMPLE 3: Employer Sub S is responsible for inspecting and cleaning a work area in Plant P around a large, permanent hole at the end of each day. An OSHA standard requires guardrails. There are no guardrails around the hole and Sub S employees do not use personal fall protection, although it would be feasible to do so. Sub S has no authority to install guardrails. However, it did ask Employer P, which operates the plant, to install them. P refused to install guardrails. Analysis: Step 1: Sub S is an exposing employer because its employees are exposed to the fall hazard. - Step 2: While Sub S has no authority to install guardrails, it is required to comply with UOSH requirements to the extent feasible. It must take steps to protect its employees and ask the employer that controls the hazard - Employer P - to correct it. Although Sub S asked for guardrails, since the hazard was not corrected, Sub S was responsible for taking reasonable alternative protective steps, such as providing personal fall protection. Because that was not done, Sub S is citable for the violation. - 6. EXAMPLE 4: Unprotected rebar on either side of an access ramp presents an impalement hazard. Sub E, an electrical subcontractor, does not have the authority to cover the rebar. However, several times Sub E asked the general contra…

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## Part 12 General Safety Precautions ## Housekeeping 185 An employer must ensure that a work site is kept clean and free from materials or equipment that could cause workers to slip or trip. ## Lighting 186 (1) An employer must ensure that lighting at a work site is sufficient to enable work to be done safely. 186 (2) An employer must ensure that a light source above a working or walking surface is protected against damage. - 186 (3) An employer must ensure that there is emergency lighting at a work site if workers are in danger if the normal lighting system fails. - 186 (4) Emergency lighting must generate enough light so that workers can - (a) leave the work site safely, - (b) start the necessary emergency shut-down procedures, and - (c) restore normal lighting. ## Pallets and storage racks 187 (1) An employer must ensure that pallets used to transport or store materials or containers are loaded, moved, stacked, arranged and stored in a manner that does not create a danger to workers. - 187 (2) An employer must ensure that racks used to store materials or equipment - (a) are designed, constructed and maintained to support the load placed on them, and - (b) are placed on firm foundations that can support the load. - 187 (3) A worker must report any damage to a storage rack to an employer as quickly as practicable. - 187 (4) The employer and the workers at a work site must take all reasonable steps to prevent storage racks from being damaged to the extent that their integrity as structures is compromised. ## Placement of roofing materials - 187.1 (1) An employer must ensure that supplies and roofing materials stored on the roof of a residential building under construction are located not less than 2 metres from a roof edge. - 187.1 (2) An employer must ensure that the weight of supplies and roofing materials referred to in subsection (1) is uniformly distributed.

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## S-15.1 REG 10 ## OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY, 2020 - (ii) the activities of the employers, the workers or the self-employed persons do not jeopardize the health and safety of a worker or self-employed person at the required worksite; and - (iii) the employers, the workers and the self-employed persons comply with any health and safety related policies and procedures implemented by the prime contractor; - (d) identify a competent person to oversee and direct, on behalf of the prime contractor, the activities of owners, employers, workers and self-employed persons at the required worksite; - (e) prepare a written plan that: - (i) addresses how the requirements imposed by clauses (b) and (c) are being met; - (ii) sets out the name and the method of contacting the individual identified pursuant to clause (d); - (iii) identifies the supervisors for the required worksite designated by employers pursuant to clause 33-3(4) (a); and - (iv) addresses other matters that the minister may require to be addressed; - (f) deliver a copy of the written plan mentioned in clause (e) to all employers and self-employed persons before they commence working at the required worksite; - (g) cooperate with any other person performing a duty imposed by Part III of the Act or these regulations; - (h) identify and inform employers, workers and self-employed persons about the hazards in or at the required worksite for which the prime contractor is responsible; - (i) ensure, insofar as is reasonably practicable, that the employers or self-employed persons at the required worksite eliminate: - (i) hazards identified by the prime contractor before activities or operations begin at the required worksite; and - (ii) while activities or operations continue at the required worksite, hazards identified by the prime contractor after activities or operations have commenced; - (j) ensure, insofar as is reasonably practicable, that the empl…

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## Requirements Applicable to All Industries ## Part 4 ## Chemical Hazards, Biological Hazards and Harmful Substances ## General Requirements - 16 Worker exposure to harmful substances - 17 Exposure to multiple substances - 18 Exposure during shifts longer than 8 hours - 19 Review of exposure limits - 20 Airborne concentration measurements - 21 Potential worker exposure - 22 Worker overexposure - 23 Worker decontamination - 24 Emergency baths, showers, eye wash equipment - 25 Prohibited activities - 26 Codes of practice - 27 Storage of harmful substances - 28 General provisions for asbestos, silica, coal dust and lead - 29 Restricted area - 30 Protective clothing used in restricted areas containing asbestos or lead - 31 Release of asbestos - 32 Prohibitions related to asbestos - 33 Asbestos in air distribution systems - 34 Asbestos in a building to be demolished - 35 Encapsulation, enclosure or removal of asbestos - 36 Notification of a project - 37 Asbestos worker course - 38 Containment and labelling of asbestos waste - 39 Use of crystalline silica in abrasive blasting - 40 Health assessments for workers exposed to asbestos, silica or coal dust - 41 Lead exposure control plan - 42 Lead - air monitoring - 43 Medical monitoring for lead - 43.1 Controlling mould exposure ## Part 5 Confined Spaces - 44 Code of practice - 45 Hazard assessment - 46 Training - 47 Entry permit system